I just found this: http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/archive/current/4542.html about getting extra bytes at the printer (consistent with the symptoms I'm getting (see http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/10/msg00133.html)) and "DMA write timed out" and "parport0: FIFO is stuck" errors in code enabled by CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO Daniel -- Daniel Barclay dsb@smart.net